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Re: I wonder if...aka...How [BUPA] started...

I found the GPR prefix gave me creative license to post whatever the hell I liked from football-rumours and it gave others creative license to poke fun at said rumour. Much like Frankie Boyle hiding behind the "Mock the week" badge, I was able to bat away any criticism with a simple "It's GPR, dickface".

Re: I wonder if...aka...How [BUPA] started...

My wife paid into BUPA for many years.
They rang me up one day and offered me a medical for free.
I had everything in a whole afternoon of tests. There was even a machine that went PING. Except this one did it really quietly in your ear and you had to press a button when you heard it. I passed that one, worked it out, just press the button every so often and most of the time the machine that very quietly goes ping will do so. The lady doctor even offered to put her finger up my anus and check my prostrate. That cost a fortune in Amsterdam.
Turned out that I needed glasses and drank too much.
On the NHS I could have walked into a surgery wearing my glasses and reeking of last night's lager and the doctor woukld have taken one look/sniff and said:
'You need glasses and you drink too much.'